Bug#741412: exim4: process crashed with signal 11 while delivering

Leszek Dubiel leszek.dubiel at dubielvitrum.pl
Wed Mar 12 09:43:14 UTC 2014


Package: exim4
Version: 4.80-7
Severity: important

After upgradading debian to woody I started to get exim crashed for some
emails (a few emails for few thousand deliveries). 

Email is delivered to exim, put into the queue, and never delivered.
Running the queue gives error message: 

	queue run: process 2795 crashed with signal 11 while delivering 1WNfPp-0000ft-T3

I have taken that email and tried to modify it to make the smallest
possible data that causes exim crashes. The file "test.txt" contains
such data (tab idented): 

	To: zbigniew grzybacz <zbigniew.grzybacz at dubielvitrum.pl>, 
	 =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Stanis=B3aw_Filas?= <stanislaw.filas at dubielvitrum.pl>, 
	 patalita.marcin at dubielvitrum.pl, phcb at dubielvitrum.pl
	Subject: test

	crash test

Command "cat -A text.txt" gives: 

	To: zbigniew grzybacz <zbigniew.grzybacz at dubielvitrum.pl>, $
	 =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Stanis=B3aw_Filas?= <stanislaw.filas at dubielvitrum.pl>, $
	 patalita.marcin at dubielvitrum.pl, phcb at dubielvitrum.pl$
	Subject: test$
	$
	crash test$

And here is output of " cat test.txt | base64": 

	VG86IHpiaWduaWV3IGdyenliYWN6IDx6Ymlnbmlldy5ncnp5YmFjekBkdWJpZWx2aXRydW0ucGw+
	LCAKID0/SVNPLTg4NTktMj9RP1N0YW5pcz1CM2F3X0ZpbGFzPz0gPHN0YW5pc2xhdy5maWxhc0Bk
	dWJpZWx2aXRydW0ucGw+LCAKIHBhdGFsaXRhLm1hcmNpbkBkdWJpZWx2aXRydW0ucGwsIHBoY2JA
	ZHViaWVsdml0cnVtLnBsClN1YmplY3Q6IHRlc3QKCmNyYXNoIHRlc3QK

Now I feed this file to exim: "cat test.txt | exim -t". No errors
reported. 

Then I run "exim -qf", and get error message: 

	2014-03-12 10:25:38 queue run: process 2795 crashed with signal 11 while delivering 1WNfPp-0000ft-T3

Command "exim -bp" shows: 

	 0m   503 1WNfPp-0000ft-T3 <root at dubielvitrum.pl>
		  zbigniew.grzybacz at dubielvitrum.pl
		  stanislaw.filas at dubielvitrum.pl
		  patalita.marcin at dubielvitrum.pl
		  phcb at dubielvitrum.pl

What is STRANGE: when running queue in debugging mode "exim -d -qf"
message is DELIVERED. 
	


-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.80 #3 built 02-Jan-2013 19:40:22
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2012
(c) The Exim Maintainers and contributors in ACKNOWLEDGMENTS file, 2007 - 2012
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 5.1.29: (October 25, 2011)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages DKIM
Lookups (built-in): lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmjz dbmnz dnsdb dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /etc/exim4/exim4.conf

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages exim4 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.49
ii  exim4-base             4.80-7
ii  exim4-daemon-light     4.80-7

exim4 recommends no packages.

exim4 suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  exim4/drec:



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